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fol. viii.- fi, THAT »' AND THE OTHER By MRS. THEO. B. DAVIS |t ’ i i' Asa usual thing I like January bet ‘ban most months of the year. £ <X f ?r nearer bringing leisure than L i' . hers. The nights are long f ,’£• ; give one a chance to do I'"' 11 ':; • X v .v .Sg before bedtime; there’s! • that simply has to ' U V can do little gardening; Vi. still enough canned fruit, po and such for cooking to be ,V tdf trouble; the New Years’ resolu lons are not yet broken beyond re-1 .• Jair, and we still have the highly moral feeling we had when they were: r.ade; the Christmas presents have .lot lost their newness and charm for j , '.he children; we have a short breath- j ; ng space before begining the real .vork of the year. Then, too, there s a blessed- ignorance as to what the .ear has in store for us, and w’e hope for all sorts of improbable things. Years ago, before women had the; 1 rivilege of voting, my husband and! { were discussing a certain subject Apd he reminded me of what the laws >f our land say about it. And I re nlied that the laws only sav that be-j cause men made them; that, if women , lad written them, they’d be different.; The above is merely a preface to -tating that I believe it was a man aho first y>W into a woman’s head j the idea thuc she looked sweet and vholesome and homelike darning -ocks. And he did it because he hated to wear holes and also hated to darn the things. It is aggravating to see -o many pictures and read many; -tories that show the-dear, patient: mother of te fhamily with an over flowing basket of holey hose, which -he is forever mending. I rise to re-, nark that there is not one thing po etc; about it. It’s work, and mean: work at that. And the women who, really enjoys darning must have time hanging heavy on her hands, or she! must be queer in some way. O, yes j I darn hose —lots of them. Darn them, till I think that if my time were worth as much as a hen’s. 1 ought to throw i the things away. But I want it defini tely understood that I’m at work when I do it, and not merely posing as the ideal mother. These eollege-student-magazine-sub -cription- solicitors who make the rounds at frequent intervals arej :-mooth talkers, and there are times, when I rather enjoy listening to them j But there are exceptions. And I’ve ( learned to watch for them. When the agents tell me what course they are taking, in what university, and in what class, they pause to ask with con- j fidential archness: “What kind of a doctor do you think I’d make?” Or! it may be lawyer they say instead of doctor. And I am sure their book of, instructions tells them to ask that; f.,r they’d never do it so nearly alike! otherwise. The last one who came J was going to be a lawyer and eloquent- j lv offered to help me get a divorce! when he finished his course. He may! have thought such an offer would be flattering to a woman of my age. The other things that agents ir ritate me by saying is: “Why you’ll never miss that amount; you can pay! for this wonderful article and not know the difference.” I’d miss it and I’d know it, and what they say sounds like an insult to my knowledge of arithmetic. Besides, at our house ‘ every penny has to toe the mark and tell what it could pay for, and then be checked up to see where it went 1 Some day, when I’ve nothing else tn do, 1 may suggest some changes in the books of instructions sent out to! agents. Up in Mrs. Hunt’s and Mrs. Frank Brantley’s yards the yellow jessa- j mine has begun to bloom. Not the j kind that grows wild around here j but the variety listed in catalogs as 1 “nudiflora”, and which blooms be- ! fore the leaves even bud. It is a lovely thing, a sort of shrubby vine. Mv youngest neighbor was leaving! after a very- brief call, and accident- j ally stepped on the cat’s tail. At the ! resultant squall she looked at me with surprise, and asked: “Did you hear; what that cat said?” Upon being told that I had heard she said: “'Well that’s just what my cat says when I step on her tail”. Evidently all cats ; speak the same language. Using pliers, robbers tortured Fre-1 mi nt Pierce by pulling all his toenails , out before thev robbed his home, near Cisne, 111. At Wimbledon, England, an owl at tacked Sidney E. Sugden, and flew,, away with his spectacles. Club Party '' j 1 The Wolf Head Club, loyal boys’ club, on Friday, December 23. spon-J sored a party at the home of its j president, Charles Flowers. During the party those present were entertained by playing games. He- i freshments were served consisting ol candy, hot cocoa and marshmallows Those present were Misses Barrow, | glowers, Hall House Sexton, and Messrs Barbee, Bunn. Chamblee, Flow ers. Horton and House. * ttlbe Zrbulon TRrrurfi New Licences Must Be Bought Announcement has been made by ‘ the State that new license tags must be displayed after January 10, or drivers will be liable to arrest. From now until the 10th there is danger of being asked to park the car until new tags have been procured, i The sale of license plates in the state has declined sharply, only about 100,000 pairs having been sold to date. ■ Japs Victorious After days of fighting, and the 1 death of an entire Chinese battalion 1 in street fighting, the Japanese have captured Shanhaikwan, an ancient | walled city of China, and one of its I most important border towns. Indi ! cations are that Japan means not only !to hold what has been gained in the 1 far East, but to add new conquests |of Chinese territory. * Smithfield Church Damaged By Fire Fire gutted the main auditoriums and assembly rooms of the Smith field Methodist church during the Sunday school hour Sunday and did i damage estimated at $30,000. The ! fire is thought to have originated in j a trash pile and spead in the boiler ! room. The building was evacuated in ! an orderly manner by hundreds of ' children and not one was hurt. Judge Timberlake Dead Judge E. W. Timberlake of Wake Forest died on Jan. 2, and was buried on Wednesday afternoon in Wake i Forest cemetery, the funeral service being conducted by his pastor, J. A Easley. Judge Timberlake was a trustee of Wake Forest College, classes of which i were suspended on Wednesday after- I noon in his honot ; The Rotary Club will sponsor a ! bridge tournament at the Club house i Thursday Jan. 12, at eight o’clock. | All who would like to play, pleasi ( get in touch with Mrs. C. A. Med | lin, places reserved 25 cents each. Bethany News Our community wishes for each reader of the Record “a Bright and , Prosperous New Year.” We had a pleasant Christmas, nc j bad acidents or serious illness was in our community during the week. ' Willie Lee Wilson has returned to Fort Bragg, after spending fifteen days with his people. Mrs H. C. Watkins’nephew, from New York visited here during the holidays Mrs. J. H. Watkins is improving af ter about three weeks in bed,. She is able to be up again. Ethel Moore was sick in bed the last 1 of the week. 1 Mrs. S. H. Jones is ill, and been con -1 fined to her bed for some more than ! a week. Mr and Mrs. G. I). Ray and children spent last Wednesday in Raleigh, with Mr. and Mrs. Fletcher Stells. Mr. and Mrs. Ebb Robertson of New Port News, Va., spent several days last week with Mrs. S. T. Davis and ! other relatives in this and Wendell communities. Born to our pastor, Mr. and Mrs L. R. Evans an eight , <>u J bo . Do - 1 27. Mr. and Mrs Ralph Yaugn of Hal ; eigh spent part of 1..-t week witi i Mrs. Vaughn’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. M. Watson. Mitchell Mill News We hope to see everybody out at i Sunday School next Sunday. Lets’ ; make a hundred percent. Mr. Buster Lyman of Virginia, visit ed friends here last week. Mr. and Mrs. Ester Edwards spent ! the week-end with Mrs. Edwards sis ter, Mrs. M. C. Hicks, of Union Chapel Mr. J. T. Pulley was a Zebulon visitor Tuesday. Mr. Wiley Mitchell, of New Jersey ! visited Mrs. J. C. Mitchell Sunday. Miss Beatrice Carter, Mr. Ester ! Edwards and Miss Grace Fuller and Mr. Collie Perry of this community also decided to try the plan of two ! making a living as well as one. Miss Mary Frances Mitchell, spent , last week with her cousin Miss Mer iam Mitchell of Youngsville. Miss Annie Lee Perry was the guest of Miss Lucy Mae Moody last | week. HELPFUL HINTS Chesnuts -and similar nuts can be ! kepi fresh indefinitely simply by plac ing them in a mason jar and screwing the lid on. , Moist table salt will remove egg tarnish from silver, and coffee and tea stains from china. Use lard for greasing cake tins. The salt in butter causes the cake to burn,! or stick to the tin. Onion juice will remove rust from tableware. Place a piece of beeswax between j two pieces of flannel and rub your irons on them. They will be clean j and run smoothly . Milk to which a little soap has been added is a good wash for white glossy paint. Keep mirrows out of the sun. The rays will cause spots and other blem ishes. —Paths i nder. ZEBULON, NORTH CAROLINA Jan. ft 1933 Recorder’s Court A number of charges against colored men were tried in the local Recorders’ court this week. Some ■ were cleared and others given fine‘ and road sentences. After gvtting 1 them scared satisfactorily, Judge ; Rhodes changed most of the fines to costs and the road sentences to fines i and gave them time to pay out. C Most of the men are working on the •! streets at .50 cents a day, so it is • likely that it will be many moons be ! fore they pay up. After considerable discussion be ! tween attorneys, the case of Mrs. ! Lillie Critcher Richardson who is . suing her husband R. B. Richardson , i for support, was laid over. Pit seems tat thhe court could not de t cide whether the case was one undei . j the jurisdiction of Wake or Johnston .;county. J Carey Pearce, who attempted to put , a full load of shot into his wife’s . body during the Christmas time, was 5 ; fined $25 00. With times like the ! present, this will be equal to about ten times as much a decade ago. | > NEW GROCERY STORE ! Carpenters are busy converting the i Robertson building adjoining the Har " i ris hardware store, into a modern gro ,! eery store. The front is being shelved for groceries. A partition will be run | across the center of the building and * the back end used for wholesale trade The store will be operated by the I Progressive Chain Store system. This | will be their twenty-fourth store. ! Their headquarters is in Sanford, N.. C. Zebulon is to be congratulated or being considered a good location for a chain store, and welcomes the man ; agement to its business life, i a EARPSBORO EVENTS ( Mrs. Eugene Bailey Sunday were Mr. , i and Mrs. Dewey Stalling of Seimes . and Mr. W. H. Moore of Middlesex who is spending some time with them. We are very glad to say little Fan nie Lou Faucette and Idalia Crowder j are about well of their colds. Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Phillips have j moved to their new home in the Hales : section. Mr.and Mrs. A D. Parrish and fam ily visited Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Lewis Friday night. Mr. and Mrs W. J. Martin, of Pilot spent Saturday with Mr. and Mrs. Noah Crowder. i The Willing Helper Club met at I Mrs. Frank Masons’ Saturday. The lub members decided to have a Christ mas Tree on Old Christmas Day. i Mr. Edward Lewis, of Norfolk, Va. | spent Friday night with his brother i Master Dan Privette is visiting his i Lindly Lewis. j grand-parents, Mr and Mrs. Frank Mason. Mrs. Oscar Richardson, of Emit section visited her sister Mrs. Lonnie Faucette Saturday. There has been lots of flu in our ! community, but we are glad to say ; that most of the people are better : Mr Norwdod Leaves Zebul n. Piet Cringe has failed to recover! his baby which was recently carried J away by a big gorilla from the fath- [ er’s home which is located 100 miles ( north of Johannesburg, South Affrica.. ODD BUT TRUE! V | I «0« TM Soul* ''''' I him *mW *.** ] ~ m-i&aßMlmr wiihg uoits ► V - ri C ‘ Mliklb I. | ! | : Hb% S\ ***« fcwo ' H * w ,>*^ U1 " /^_____T l^''\ \. now wHin Jt s r *i *PlHb Twl tQUWMtNT W®- ■ h '.F THl«'(-F!.Xt VtMW 'MW'fiMft FOfc. WTV\ *1 \ _ . Jpgjjlgi ,*y; ; J £§,-. 1 •*: CAKNf-1 VH -|J L '' » w »‘ ■ —him .y, ,«f a r*-l j, As We Go To Press Word *- s received that Calvin Coolidge, ex-president of the l nited States was found dead in hC home in Northampton, Mass. R. S. McCoin Sti!! Missing ; R S. McCoin, missing attorney of Henderson, has not yet been located, j Rewards have been offered for finding ; him, dead or alive. Clues furnished by a letter purporting to have been written by a boy who says he saw I McCoin murdered, are being triced. ■ Othe clues sent by those who claim to have seen the missing man are being investigated. 1 A systematic search is being made !but so far nothing definite has de : veloped. Mrs. Strickland Passes Onward Mrs. Fannie Strickland died last Sunday night Jan. 1,. She had been at the State Hospital about 18 months. ! )She was the mother of ten children; ' j six boys, Paul, Joe, Leroy, Kirkman, J Clellan and Lester, and four girls, Mrs. ‘ W. L Forsythe, Mrs Leroy Jones, Bes ! sie and Nonie Lee. ' She was a smart woman. She was buried at Rocky Cross. Rev. Davis of Zebulon conducted the funeral service ' we extend our sympathy to the be ■ reaved family. Holloway’s Hits By James H. Holloway . As this is being written, the year : of 1932 is slowly passing, it has been | a year of many disappointments and • sorrows and the memories it leaves i behind are not pleasant ones. The : | Happy New Year will bring renewed ■! lope and encouragement to the peopl ' j and a greater measure of prosperity '.and iuy Governor Roosevelt is now being - overwhelmed by a great multitude of 5 ; councellors and advisers, on how to ! run the nation’ business. If he suc ■ coeds in absorbing all the sensible and ! - ill-advised suggestions, he will be com pelled to listen to for the next two months he will have acquired more ! information than any president ever j knew before. After he has listened at tentively to all the various shades of ' opinion from statesmen and would-be -statesmen, if he is not the worst be wildered man in America he is cer tainly a wonderful man. If there is a fundamental weakness in our philosophy of government, it probably lies in its lack of flexibility and re sponsiveness to the will of the people The present Congress and President Hoover will remain in power until the fourth of March, but the business of the nation is practically at a stand still in so far as any remediable legis lation is possible to help thp situation. A lame duck President and a lame duck Congress never accomplished anything and if they were to attempt j any wise legeslation, the opposition party will move Heaven and Earth to defeat it. More than one crying baby will be found on the White House doorstep by M System Moves j To Henderson ! Mr. Godfrey and Miss Flowers who, l have operated the M System grocery ! store in Zebulon for a year or two have moved it to Henderson. They handled a good line of groceries and the community will miss them am their business. Mr. A. N. Jones who has been with the store, we understand, will move 1 to Henderson and be associated with the business. Raleigh Defaults. j The capital of the state defaulted j for the first time on January 1, when the city failed in payment of princi pal and interest due on bonds held lby a New' York concern. Mayor Isley says it is only a technical de ! fault and that the city will nie r t its . indebtedness next month. He says the failure was the result ! of funds being tied up in closed banks ; and as result of the misapplication of funds by a former tax collector. PHILATHEA CLASS MEETING The Baptist Philathea Class met on Monday night at the home of Mrs. . Merritt Massey. Mrs. Julian Horton . presided, an ( j Mrs. Abner Baker was in charge of the program. The de i votional was led by Mrs. Corbett. Mrs iJ. M. Whitely read an appropriate ' poem. Mrs. T. B. Davis spoke on I Things Which Come to Pass, and Miss Southerland, teacher of the class l made a talk on New Year’s Resolu j tions as they apply to class work. Miss Southerland also expressed the 1 regret of not only this class, but of . the whole Baptist Church that Mrs ! A. N. Jones, one of the members, will move at an early date to Henderson. After the business session the host ess servej light refreshments. The ' next meeting of the Philatheas will I be held with Miss Southerland at ’j Wakelon Dormitory. | Mr. J. Norwood j Leaves Zebulon •! Mr. John Norwood, who has been ■ i cashier of the local bank for some- I! time, is accepting work ejsewhere. : Mr. and Mrs. Norwood have made 1 , many friends in Zebulon who will re 1 gret their leaving. Mr. R. L. Little succeeds Mr. Nor wood as easier of the Page Trust I Company. Before coming to Zebulon ' e was Cashier of the Siler City branch of the Page Trust Company. Zebu lon welcomes Mr. Rittle to its business life, and the patrons and others are invited to call on Mr. Little at the bank. j ~ r "~ ~~ " i President Roosevelt when he moves in on March the fourth, left there by his predecessor. The new President will be called on to solve more knotty problems in thp next four years than only three of his predecessors com ,bined had to contend with. If he meets the issues fearlessly and makes wise decisions promptly, he will go down in history as one of the greatest figures in history of the nation, but if he dallies arid hesitates he will quickly| loose the confidence of the people andj on page 2) j j YE FLAPOUOOLE Isj The ! n'V ISIIKI < K I KK Well! ... At last I’ve discovered one girl in this town who is absolutely different (in another way) . . And what away too! . . . When she laughs she does it, not as you or I, but in a most effective and unique way . . . Yes nia’m. Miss “ ” laughs in her middle, not on her face . . . Says Miss “C ", “I some times smile with my face, but it is only when I am really tickled that I laugh in my mid dle.” . „ So when you meet the little lady, and wish to know whether you amuse her or not, listen to her mid dle . . . Say Doc., lend me your stetha scope a minute. . . I’m about to bring forth a joke. . . . Did you see that load of hay, no, it wasn’t hay after all . . . Just fodder, they (it, he, him, them or what have you) only had the fodder stacked up on the wagon to •the same heighth as the street lamps oh yes they do have street lamps in this town even though it be smallei than the college students would wish !it These students say that it’s too quiet. Where are they every day at twelve o’clock? . . Now somebody guess “bed” . . . I’ve just found out why there is so much fuss at noon every day . . . Now, here’s the low down . . . The people of our fair city are to depressionized tb eat more than once a day, Consequently, when they do get to eat that one meal, they are so happy that they have to make some noise, but, due t.> the fact that they are too weak to yell, the fire whistle is blown to fair ye well . .Oh yes, I mustn’t forget the tall brunette who was trying to “bum” her way to Raleigh the other day so that she might prevail upon her “pater” for the family car . . . (P. S. She got the far) You should have been in the “Mint" the other night when someone (cruel, too cruel for words) slipped up (This is too much) beh : nd Brown and (I can’t stand this much longer) stuck a sharp, long instru ment (just a common every-day ice pick)into that part (of said party of the third person) that monkeys swing by . . You should have seen the look ol Pained surprize on his face. .... And now Brown limps around with the point, where the aforementioned ice pick entered, painted a brilliant hue of Mercurochrome (if that isn’t spelled correctly. Dr. Daniels certain ly isn’t up on his phonetics) . . . By the way, the spot is marked “X” 1 ought to know, I painted it! ..... And friends, a romance is budding right under our noses, however, it hasn’t advanced far enough to tel! whether it’s a real romance or just a nother fever blister, now the thing may be pinched in the bud, but if any thing further developed along that ( line, you’ll know as much as I, next w f ek And who was the person who caused Bev Isaacs to break the heel of her shoe? . . The gent who so graciously fixed it for her, was none other than our old friend and cohort, Robert I). Massey . . . Bravo Robert, when we find a heel, we’ll bring him around to you And again that noble upholder of the An tone name, comes forward with a most wonderful riddle . . . Asks Earl, the youngest of the Antones, “Why js Santa Claus like Calvin Coolige?” (We gave up too) . . . “Because they both have beards only Coolige doesn’t , have a beard” . . . Don’t say it, that’s what we thought too the first time we saw the (brat) dear little fellow . . And as the mountaineer's son said after his old man had had the “reve noor’ down for some thirty odd min utes, “Kick him in the ribs pap’ his teeth’s all gone!” .... And that new grocery store that is coming to town . . Wonder what they’re going to sell ? George Lane, That dashing young man who runs the Standard service station, has a minature swim ming pool where he used to drain the oil from cars . . That’s nothing on us though, we have one in our base ment After much concentra tion on the matter, I have decided to call my car Lancelot, only it’s a “She Lancelot” instead of a “He Lancelot” ... I know it is a bit unconventional |to call an automobile Lancelot, but ' rized when I was still a child. I’ll .... And now I want to render a lovely, lyrical lunacy, that I memo- when I was still a child, I’T never forget it so long as I live (Wait while I run home and get a copy of it, there are a few lines that are a wee bit hazy in my mind) . . . Ah here I am, back again, and I’ve brought that wonderful little ode with me . . . Now this touching little bal lad ' s entitled; WOMAN (Exclamation point) Woman —She’s an angel in truth, a demon in fiction, A woman’s the greatest of all con tradiction ; She’s afraid of a cockroach, she’ll scream at a mouse, But she’ll tackle a husband as big as a house She'll take him for better, she' 11 take him for worse; She’ll split his head open and then be his nurse; And when he is well and can get out of bed, She’ll pick up a teapot, and throw at his head. She’s faithful, deceitful, keen-sighted and blind; She’s crafty, she’s simple, she’s cruel she’s kind. She’ll lift a man up, she'll cast a man down, She'll make him her hero, her ruler (Continued on page 2) NUMBER 29